Data Management Plan Database

A Data Management Plan (DMP) describes how you will manage, store, secure, document, and share research data. DMPs can vary broadly across disciplines, methodologies, and data types. DMPs are a growing requirement for grants, and can also guide data practices for individuals and teams. DMP Assistant is a free webtool that guides you through drafting your DMP and the easiest way to start building a DMP.

Our database gathers examples from across the world including DMPs from the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Qualitative DMP Competition, DataOne, Digital Curation Centre, Liber, the Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance, and UC San Diego Research Data Curation into one searchable, open-access platform.

Download the amalgamated dataset: https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/SDITUG

Project Team: Rebeca Gaston Jothyraj (RDM Assistant - 2024), Shrey Acharya (RDM Assistant - 2023), Sarthak Behal (RDM Assistant 2022-23), Danica Evering and Isaac Pratt (RDM Specialists), Debbie Lawlor (Developer).

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Afro-Descendant Movements and Territories of Life in Urban Spaces: Examples from Brazil

Original Source

University of Massachusetts Amherst; Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This DMP investigates Afro-descendant movement in Latin America and subsequent self-determined collectives using participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and participatory workshops.

An Annotated Digital Edition of Franz Boas’s Pioneering Ethnography

Original Source

Bard Graduate Center; Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect digitized materials, fonts, search algorithms, and software. The digitized materials will consist of historical and recent photographs, newspaper clippings, sound recordings, video clips, interviews, published essays, narratives, and songs.

Biological Anthropology: Data Management Plan - Boyer

Original Source

Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect 3D digital data, algorithms for shape analysis, publications, and conferences.

Cultural Anthropology: Data Management Plan - Kuipers

Original Source

Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect survey data, digital scans, transcriptions, and fieldnotes from observations.

Cultural Anthropology: Data Management Plan - Ryzweski

Original Source

Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP is curated to document 20 – 25 digital stories depicting Detroit’s ethnic histories. The data collected will include a combination of digital images, audio and video.

Data Management Plan for Computational reproducibility in High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Original Source

Digital Research Alliance of Canada; University of Waterloo

This DMP example show uses a case study of relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics data to show how management strategies can support computational reproducibility in High-Performance Computing. Data are the inputs and outputs of the numerical simulation model.

Data Management Plan: Opening access to economic data to prevent tobacco related diseases in Africa

Original Source

University of Cape Town (SA); Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance

This DMP will collect and make publicly available tobacco related data in certain African countries to increase research in this field such that a continent-wide approach to tobacco control can be developed.

Data Management Plan: Soundscape Study

Original Source

Digital Research Alliance of Canada; Université de Montréal

This is an example data management plan from the Alliance which describes a fictional research project which involves the collection of soundscapes from monasteries. The fictional researcher intends to collect audio data (WAV files) in order to facilitate analysis.

Doctoral Dissertation Research: AnAgent-Based Model of Population Changes in a Vulnerable Coastal Environment

Original Source

Louisiana State University; Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect coastal hazard data, GIS shape files and data, social-economic data, and demographic data. This data will be used for investigating population changes in a vulnerable coastal environment.

EAGER: PBI: Designing Public Use Microdata Business Areas (PUMBAs) for Innovation

Original Source

RTI International

This DMP aims to collect geographic data, survey data, statistics, microdata, and code.

Employee Perception of Economic Outlook in Myanmar’s International Business Environment: An Assessment of Optimism and Pessimism

Original Source

University of Plymouth

This DMP aims to collect survey data to be used for understanding the employee perception of the economic outlook in Myanmar.

EuDEco Data management plan

Original Source

EuDEco Consortium; University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)

This DMP aims to collect case study data, model data, survey data, and observational data for the EuDEco project. This project will indulge in establishing a self-sustaining data market in the context of developing the data economy.

Human genomic data

Original Source

National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Human Genome Research Institute Home (NHGRI)

This is a sample data management plan from the NIH, intended for submission to the NHGRI, that provides an outline for a project involving human genomic and clinical data.

Linguistic Anthropology: Data Management Plan - Amith

Original Source

Open Anthropology Research Repository

This DMP aims to collect texts, transcriptions, photographs, visual materials, audio, and translations.

Mock Behavioral and Eye-Tracking Project with Human participants

Original Source

Montreal Neurological Institute

This DMP aims to collect reaction time, choice, and eye-tracking data which will be used for a mock behavioral and eye-tracking project.

R2PI Data Management Plan

Original Source

R2PI Consortium; University of Vienna (PHAIDRA)

This DMP aims to collect research and case study data for the R2Pi project, which has the intent of developing sustainable business models to create a circular economy.

Survey and Interview Example

Original Source

National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

This is an example of a data management plan from the NIH, intended to collect anthropologic and public policy data from surveys and interviews.

VDL Student Data Management Record

Original Source

McMaster University

This is a student data management record created by the vascular dynamics lab. Although it was created for students working within this lab and is structured for kinesiology related research, it has broad applicability as an exit protocol for labs working across Natural and Health Sciences.